{"id":31748,"date":"2023-05-03T01:31:14","date_gmt":"2023-05-03T01:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/israel-armed-groups-in\/"},"modified":"2023-05-03T03:28:46","modified_gmt":"2023-05-03T03:28:46","slug":"israel-armed-groups-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/israel-armed-groups-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel, armed groups in Gaza agree to ceasefire, Palestinian officials say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JERUSALEM (Reuters) &#8211;     Israel and Palestinian armed groups in Gaza agreed to a ceasefire early on Wednesday, two Palestinian officials said, after the death of a Palestinian hunger striker in Israeli custody a day earlier sparked cross-border exchanges of fire.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;reciprocal and simultaneous&#8221; ceasefire went into effect at 3:30 a.m. (0030 GMT) and was brought about with efforts from Egyptian, Qatari and United Nations officials, the sources told Reuters.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p> (Reporting by Nidal al-Mughrabi; Writing by Henriette Chacar; Editing by Shri Navaratnam)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/israel-armed-groups-in\/flames-rise-following-an-israeli-air-strike-in-gaza-4\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportWorldNews\/tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ4200M-VIEWIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ4200M-VIEWIMAGE\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JERUSALEM (Reuters) &#8211; Israel and Palestinian armed groups in Gaza agreed to a ceasefire early on Wednesday, two Palestinian officials said, after the death of a Palestinian hunger striker in Israeli custody a day earlier sparked cross-border exchanges of fire. The &#8220;reciprocal and simultaneous&#8221; ceasefire went into effect at 3:30 a.m. (0030 GMT) and was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":31749,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1222],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-u-s-world-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportWorldNews\/tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ4200M-VIEWIMAGE.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31748"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31750,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31748\/revisions\/31750"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}